Support for ripping Audio CDs as well as transcoding all supported audio formats using the Converter component.

Full ReplayGain support.

Customizable keyboard shortcuts.

Open component architecture.

When you first install and setup the interface appears a tad bleak, but in reality it hides some powerful features and a vast array of customizable options. You can choose the Quick Setup option, or you can go make individual selections regarding the type of information you would like to see displayed. If you need, there are skins available to download as well.

Foobar2000 is a great audio tool to have in your collection of apps. It is lightweight, has a small operating footprint and has some nice features. It has full unicode support, ReplayGain support and native support for several popular audio formats. On the downside, it isn’t that easy to navigate if you are a novice. However, there is some help documentation available to assist those less experienced users.

* Worked around playback/output preferences crash on Windows 2003.* ID3v2 tagging compatibility improvements:- Non-compliant ID3v2.3 TYER allowed by default since various other popular software does it.- Option to write “rating” as TXXX for the few people who want it.* Fixed properties dialog field copy/paste inconsistency when copying specific fields from single to multiple files.* ReplayGain scanner: added additional warnings when trying to scan a very large group of tracks as a single album.* ReplayGain scanner: addressed extreme memory usage when scanning a large group of tracks as a single album.* Cleaned up embedded cuesheet handling code.* Faster FLAC tag updates when full file rewrite is necessary.* Sanitized FLAC tag updating behaviors in low-memory conditions.